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The Major League Baseball (MLB) team out of Arizona, the Diamondbacks, play their games at Chase field in downtown Phoenix. Not unlike many other teams, some games there were known as “dog-friendly” events, often titled “Bark at the Park.” What sets the Diamondbacks apart, is that now Chase Field will be dog-friendly for a lot more games, thanks to the new PetSmart Patio and PetSmart Park!
The Diamondbacks have partnered up with PetSmart, a national pet supply retailer in the United States, and have created a space for baseball fans to enjoy a beautiful summer day at the ballpark with their families, furry, four-legged ones included. This is set to begin with the coming 2016 MLB season.
Along with the PetSmart Patio, there will also be PetSmart Park. The patio will be along the main concourse level, behind the center field wall, just off to the left. It will include multi-tiered seating areas for families and dogs, providing everyone with a comfortable space to watch the game.
If your dog is still a puppy, or finds themselves restless during the game, not to worry. That’s what the PetSmart Park is designed for! The park will be a combination indoor/outdoor play area, similar to many dog parks in cities all over the world. The indoor part of the park will even be climate controlled, so no one has to worry about overheating in the hot, Arizona sun.
This newer version of their existing “Bark at the Park” program will also be altered to provide ticket packages and food options not just for the human baseball fans, but for the dogs as well. All of the available home games will even feature doggy ice cream cakes, complete with kibble toppings! There will also be other snacks available for the dogs.
“We are excited to create a unique dog-friendly area of our ballpark and can think of no better way than to partner with Phoenix-based PetSmart,” said Diamondbacks president and CEO, Derrick Hall in a press release. “Bark at the Park has always been a popular event at Chase Field and now we are thrilled to offer fans the opportunity to bring their dogs to our games every Sunday to a new destination designed specifically for them.”
The tickets for the Dog Days of Summer are available now. The first home game will be on April 10th against the Chicago Cubs. You can visit the Diamondbacks’ website for more information by clicking here, or calling their box office at 602-462-4600.


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Charlottetown clothing brand hosting its first ever pop-up shop
By Abigail Cox
June 3, 2021
Jean-Grace Kifwabala, creator of the Charlottetown clothing brand Truly Motivated, is pictured above modelling one of the brands sweatshirts. Truly Motivated is hosting their first ever pop-up shop in collaboration with Courtside sneakers this Friday. Photo by Alex Corbett Photography.
Jean-Grace Kifwabala wanted to spread God’s word in a subtle and positive way.
Being a Christian man, he decided to launch Truly Motivated, a local clothing brand, in November 2020.
The brand uses different designs and quotes on the clothing to spread positive messages and spark conversation everywhere it’s seen.
“Truly Motivated is not just a clothing brand, it’s a lifestyle,” Kifwabala said, noting the brand’s focus is to encourage people to figure out what motivates them, no matter what it is.
Truly Motivated donates 10 per cent of all its proceeds to ShareTheMeal, the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting world hunger to date. It’s not all about just selling clothes, he said.
“When everything is said and done, I want people to look back and say Truly Motivated is trying to make a difference in other people’s lives. That’s why I don’t mind donating our merchandise and proceeds to others, as long as I can make their day.”
The Truly Motivated team is collaborating with Courtside Sneakers and having their first ever pop-up shop this Friday, June 4. Kifwabala hopes the event will help his brand grab the attention of new supporters and customers.
“I want my story and the brand to reach as many people as possible.”
In the near future, the team plans to sell its products in stores all over P.E.I., not just online.
“We want to take over the Island in a way that when tourists come to P.E.I., they know we have Truly Motivated, just like how they know we have Cows ice cream.”
Visit their website at trulymotivated.ca or stop by their pop-up shop June 4, 155 Queen Street, Charlottetown, from 5 to 8 p.m.


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Click fraud has always been an issue for advertisers using paid search, but for many, it has been considered a cost of doing business.
So long as campaigns are profitable, worrying about click fraud hasn't always seemed like a priority.
Less than a year ago, AOL acquired Bebo for $850m in cash in what is today still one of only a handful of major Web 2.0 acquisitions.
Our resident skeptic, Drama 2.0, criticized the deal and called the suggestion that AOL may have overpaid for the popular social network the "understatement of the year".
Facing perhaps the toughest economy for retailers in decades, Best Buy is turning to a new group that it thinks can help it boost sales: developers.
The consumer electronics retailer, which operates in the United States and Puerto Rico, may have gotten rid of its biggest competitor after Circuit City was forced to shut its doors but that doesn't mean that Best Buy can relax.
My RSS reader has subscriptions to feeds for several dozen technology blogs that I've come to rely on because they've provided news and information that I find useful and valuable.
I have but one simple expectation: relevance.
Mozilla, the non-profit foundation behind the popular Firefox browser, is putting its weight behind the development of an open, royalty-free video codec for the internet.
While popular video formats such as MPEG4 are quite robust, most are proprietary, covered by patents and require some sort of licensing on the part of software vendors.
As Microsoft pushes forward on the path towards Windows 7, the successor OS to a very disappointing Windows Vista, the Redmond-based software company has made an Internet Explorer 8 release candidate available for download.
IE8 will come bundled with Windows 7 and represents Microsoft's effort to maintain IE's always-vulnerable but still-dominant hold on the browser market.
Last week, we reported on Encyclopaedia Britannica's pending changes to Britannica.com that would enable users to contribute content to the Britannica's online entries.
The move was clearly designed to take a page out of the book of the user-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which has come to dominate the online market.
It's an experience many of us share: you think you've come up with the
ideal domain name only to find that the domain name is already
registered and the owner is only willing to sell it for a small fortune.
Savvy investors and speculators have made millions buying and selling domain names over the years.
Twitter, the popular microblogging service that has become a favorite
social media marketing tool, has signed a term sheet to raise more
venture capital money at a $250m valuation. That's according to a report
published this weekend by TechCrunch.
Thus far, Twitter has raised approximately $20 million in funding. The dollar amount of the latest round is not yet known.
Is copying a headline and the lead sentences from a news story on a third party website you link to fair use or copyright infringement?
That's a question that a Massachusetts court will have to answer in a trial that has been scheduled to begin next week.


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Salman Khan’s recently released action thriller ‘Antim – The Final Truth’ is set to premiere on ZEE5 this Christmas.
There will be a clash between a number of movies during the same week across various digital platforms. ‘Antim – The Final Truth’ will release on ZEE5, on the same day as ‘Atrangi Re’ on Hotstar. Also in the same week, ‘Satyameva Jayate 2′ will hit Amazon Prime Video. Recently, the Yash Raj Films’ entertainer ‘Bunty Aur Babli 2’ released on Amazon Prime Video.
A source told Bollywood Hungama, “The same day, Antim – The Final Truth, featuring Aayush Sharma and Salman Khan in a supporting role, will also premiere on digital, on Zee5. It was released in cinemas on November 26. As per the new normal arrangement, films can be released on the OTT platform in 28 days. Sooryavanshi, which was released in cinemas on November 5, premiered on Netflix on December 3. Yesterday, Bunty Aur Babli 2 arrived on Amazon Prime. It hit cinemas on November 19. Hence, Antim – The Final Truth will be out on Zee5 on the same day as Atrangi Re’s direct-to-digital release.”


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TransUnion Research Quantifies How Social Distancing is Changing Shopping Patterns
As more consumers turn online for purchases, TransUnion survey finds 22% of Americans say they have been targeted by digital fraud related to COVID-19
TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) today released new research that quantifies the spike in digital commerce since social distancing became widespread globally. The company found a 23% increase in e-commerce transactions in the week following the World Health Organization declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11th compared to the average weekly volume in 2020.
“It is clear that social distancing has changed consumer shopping behaviors globally and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future,” said Greg Pierson, senior vice president of business planning and development at TransUnion. “No doubt fraudsters will continue to follow the trends of good consumers and adjust their schemes accordingly.”
In a recent survey of 1068 Americans 18 and older, TransUnion found 22% have been targeted by digital fraud related to COVID-19. TransUnion’s findings come as it releases its Global E-commerce in 2020 report. In the report, TransUnion Global Fraud & Identity Solutions reported a 347% increase in account takeover and 391% rise in shipping fraud attempts globally against its online retail customers from 2018 to 2019.
“With so many reported data breaches, it’s not just about if your account will be hijacked, it’s about when,” said Melissa Gaddis, senior director of customer success for TransUnion Fraud & Identity Solutions. “Once a fraudster breaks into an account, they have access to everything imaginable resulting in stolen credit card numbers and reward points, fraudulent purchases, and redirecting shipments to other addresses.”
Typical methods used to take over an account include buying login details on the dark web, credential stuffing, hacking, phishing, romance scams and social engineering. Shipping fraud is when criminals take over a customer account but don’t change the shipping address in order to avoid detection. Once the package has shipped, they intercept it at the carrier site and change the shipping address.
Besides account takeover and shipping fraud, TransUnion revealed other significant e-commerce fraud and transaction trends:
- 42% decrease in promotion abuse from 2018 to 2019. Cybercriminals access accounts to drain loyalty points or create multiple new accounts to use the same promotion over and over, often against website and app terms. TransUnion believes this decrease can be attributed to fraudsters turning to more lucrative schemes such as account takeover.
- 78% of all e-commerce transactions came from mobile devices in 2019. That’s a 33% increase from 2018. E-commerce companies are scrambling to ensure a mobile-first experience for consumers not just to browse but to buy.
- 118% increase in risky transactions from mobile devices in 2019. Fraudsters have taken notice that more e-commerce transactions are coming from mobile devices and are trying to replicate that consumer behavior in order to avoid detection.
“Although the death of brick and mortar has been well documented, there is still plenty of room for e-commerce growth with one report claiming online retail only makes up 14% of all global retail sales,” said Gaddis. “With so much room left for growth, it’s important that retailers stay ahead of the emerging transaction and retail trends to provide a friction-right experience for consumers and a fraudster-proof barrier.”
Download TransUnion’s Global E-commerce in 2020 report.
Contact Andrew Goss with any further inquiries on this report at email@example.com or 206-909-9212.
About TransUnion (NYSE: TRU)
TransUnion is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible in the modern economy. We do this by providing a comprehensive picture of each person so they can be reliably and safely represented in the marketplace. As a result, businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things. We call this Information for Good.®
TransUnion Global Fraud & Identity Solutions unite both consumer and device identities to detect threats across markets while ensuring friction-right user experiences. The solutions, all part of the IDVision with iovation suite, fuse traditional data science with machine learning to provide businesses unique insights about consumer transactions, safeguarding tens of millions of transactions each day.
A leading presence in more than 30 countries across five continents, TransUnion provides solutions that help create economic opportunity, great experiences and personal empowerment for hundreds of millions of people.


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Colgate-Palmolive Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Reuben Mark said the consumer products company plans for President and Chief Operating Officer Ian Cook to assume the CEO title in 2007.
Acknowledging questions regarding the company's succession plans, Mr. Mark said during an analyst conference Friday that Colgate's board also "expressed a desire to have me stay as chairman for a brief period yet to be determined."
Mr. Mark has been CEO of the Manhattan-based maker of Colgate toothpaste, Palmolive dishwashing liquid and Hill's Science Diet pet food since 1984 and has been with Colgate for 43 years.
Mr. Cook has been operating chief since 2004 and added the title of president in July, when he was 53 years old. His roughly 30-year career with the company includes leading Colgate North America to record sales, market leadership and profitability as its president, the company has said.
Mr. Mark also outlined Colgate-Palmolive's financial goals through 2010, including annual volume growth of 5% to 8%, gross-profit margin improvement of 0.75 to 1.25 percentage points a year on average, continuous improvement in operating profit and "good quality" double-digit growth in per-share earnings.
A Colgate representative couldn't immediately confirm that the earnings goal is an annual target.
Colgate last month credited higher selling prices and new products for strong quarterly results, and Mr. Mark said Friday that recent acceleration in growth momentum should continue. Colgate's gross-profit margin reached an all-time high of 56% in the latest quarter.
Colgate's long-term growth goals are "based on indigenous, internal growth," Mr. Mark said, but in response to a question, he said "of course" Colgate would be interested in Pfizer Inc.'s Listerine brand. Earlier this month, Pfizer said it would explore strategic alternatives for its consumer products unit, including retaining it, spinning it off or selling it.


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Volvo to export Chinese-built sedan to US this year
The elongated S60 might not be the only car to come this way from The People's Republic: Volvo is planning an S90 flagship that would be built on the SPA architecture at its Daqing factory, and the Reuters story says it might be exported here, too.
The final nugget is that Volvo is said to be considering a factory in the US. In 2012, former CEO Stefan Jacoby said the company would spend "two or three years" looking into a US or Mexico factory. Much has changed at the company since then, so it looks like the reset button got hit – Reuters characterizes it as Volvo "starting to weigh the possibility" of a plant – but with all of its competitors setting up shop in North America, we probably won't have to wait three years for another update.
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The fan-made, one-of-a-kind Luigi 2DS is now up for auction from the makers at Rose Coloured Gaming. So if you’ve got the cash to splash and fancy getting your hands on this Luigi-themed treat, then you better start bidding. But since it’s the Year of Luigi and word of mouth propelled their model to this spot, Rose Coloured Gaming will donate 25 per cent of the final selling price to Child’s Play – a charity which helps chronically and terminally ill children with the power of play from video games.
The bidding has already started – with the current bid sitting at a price of $302 – and will run until November 17, 10 p.m. EDT. Rose Coloured Gaming says there will only ever be one of these systems made, which features a Luigi silhouette on the back of the device. Is this something you’d like to purchase? Let us know in the comments below.


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German business expects escalation of trade war by Trump
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German companies should gear up for a further escalation of a swelling global trade conflict by U.S. President Donald Trump, the country's Federal Association of Wholesale and Foreign Trade (BGA) warned on Thursday.
Speaking to the newspaper "Rheinische Post", BGA president Holger Bingmann expressed concern that threats made by Trump to impose new tariffs on U.S. imports from the European Union (EU) during a NATO summit could soon become a reality.
"The measures of the U.S. government taken recently against China are a bad omen for the EU as they demonstrate Trump's willingness to escalate (the conflict)", Bingmann said.
SEE ALSO :Race to replace UK's May gets underway
He added that "additional tariffs on cars and car parts" from the EU could be unveiled by Washington "in the near future".
Nevertheless, the BGA president urged the German government and the European Commission to exercise restraint in response to Trump's heated rhetoric.
Instead, Bingmann argued that a de-escalation and continuation of talks over mutual tariff reduction between the EU and US would be a "better solution".
Richard Grenell, the U.S ambassador to Germany, recently informed carmakers Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW during a secret meeting in Berlin that he had been tasked by Trump with finding a solution to the swelling trade conflict between the U.S. and EU.
Towards this end, Washington was willing to consider a "zero option" of mutual tariff elimination in automotive trade and reductions of non-tariff barriers in the industry.
SEE ALSO :Post Brexit, Kenya can take positive approach to grow its potential
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German business associations have repeatedly called for mutual tariff reductions as a means to repair strained transatlantic ties and help improve the export competitiveness of the U.S. economy.
The EU has so far reacted to U.S. imposition of punitive tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from the bloc by filing a lawsuit at the World Trade Organization (WTO) against Washington.
It had also unveiled retaliatory measures targeted at specific U.S. exports such as Bourbon whisky and motorcycles by Harley Davidson, which subsequently announced that it would shift parts of it U.S. production abroad to evade resulting new duties in a significant blow to Trump's "America First" doctrine.
It remains unclear how German policymakers would react to an attempt by Trump to hit its vital national automotive industry with tariffs as well.
German minister for the economy Peter Altmaier has said that Berlin plans to wait until after a closely-watched meeting between EU commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and Trump in Washington in late July before deciding on how to further proceed in the trade conflict.
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The thought of shoplifters typicallly invokes images of figures lurking in the corners of stores as they attempt to surreptitiously obscure goods and make their way out of the store without drawing attention to themselves. That modus operandi certainly did not apply to a group of thieves that hit up a California Nike store.
Redland, California police are searching for a group of males that entered a Nike Factory Store and absconded with thousands of dollars of merchandise. Video taken by a witness named Rosie showed the thieves walking out with arms completely full of products. They escaped in a white Nissan SUV.
Police also state this store had been hit five times over the past month and the day the video was recorded was the second time that day the store had been robbed; earlier in the day ( about 4:30 p.m.) thieves victimized the location.


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NEW DELHI, August 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
India's Most Comprehensive Platform for Waste and Sanitation Industry Supported by MoUD and SBM
WasTe and SaniTech India 2016, an initiative by UBM India, India's leading exhibition organiser, launched today at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The three day trade expo (17th - 19th August) was inaugurated by Shri. P.K. Gupta, IAS, Municipal Commissioner, North Delhi Municipal Corporation and Shri. Madhavan, Chief Executive Water Aid India, Mr. Yogesh Mudras, Managing Director, UBM India and Mr. Abhijit Mukherjee, Group Director, UBM India amidst an august industry gathering.
Over the course of these three days, the expo brings together India's waste management, recycling and sanitation fraternity under one roof to showcase their products, technologies and innovations before a highly influential business community. It is also an ideal platform for this industry to congregate and discuss industry trends, challenges and market insights, and provide in-depth solutions, that help in proliferating the business.
Empowered by The Ministry of Urban Development ( MoUD ), Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) , WasTe And SaniTech India 2016 is supported by MRAI- Metal Recycling Association of India, IPCA - Indian Pollution Control Association, IBA - Indian Bio Gas Association, AIPIA - All India Plastics Industries Association, NGO partners: Sulabh International and Toxic Link, Sanitation Partner: WaterAid and Knowledge Partner: The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) and Associate Partner: 3S India.
Bringing together manufacturers and technology providing companies, the expo has key participating exhibitors including states such as Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, Municipal corporations such as Swachh Andhra Corporation, Municipal Corporation Delhi - East (MCD) and companies such as MRT Systems, Dhara Groups, Bharti Hygiene, Frontier Polymer, Rashtriya Furnace amongst others. The platform also promotes new start-up companies, keen on disrupting the domain.
The highlights of the expo include a two-day power-packed industry, focused-conferences and technical seminars that discussed the challenges being faced and solutions being sought by the industry. The topics of the technical seminars included municipal solid waste management, hazardous waste management, plastic waste management, e-waste management, bio-medical waste management, and construction and debris waste management.
The expo also witnessed the launch of two industry reports on 'Solid Waste to Resource' and 'Urban Sanitation in India' by The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI ) and WaterAid respectively in association with UBM India.
Speaking at the launch of the first edition of WasTe and SaniTech India, Yogesh Mudras, Managing Director, UBM India said, "The idea behind launching WasTe and SaniTech India is to address the sanitation challenges in our country in all its facets and to showcase a gamut of innovative, game-changing solutions. The issue needs a paradigm shift at all four levels in terms of policy, plan, programme and project. The expo and conference looks at objectives, best management practices, re-evaluation of technology to design affordable solutions, local recycle and reuse of water, create informed public opinion and promote water-prudent cities. The show also serves as a platform to bring stakeholders from the central and state governments, local self-governing bodies and citizens and project their success stories in the field of waste management and sanitation. We are indebted to the Ministry of Urban Development, and the Swachh Bharat Mission for showing their unstinting support in our endeavour."
About UBM India:
UBM India is India's leading exhibition organizer that provides the industry with platforms that bring together buyers and sellers from around the world, through a portfolio of exhibitions, content led conferences and seminars. UBM India hosts over 25 large scale exhibitions and 40 conferences across the country every year; thereby enabling trade across multiple industry verticals. A UBM Asia Company, UBM India has offices across Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai. UBM Asia is owned by UBM plc which is listed on the London Stock Exchange. UBM Asia is the leading exhibition organizer in Asia and the biggest commercial organizer in mainland China, India and Malaysia.
For further details, please visit ubmindia.in.
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Ventes Avenues (MOCA Technology), a mobile media company headquartered in Mumbai, has announced its foray into the programmatic advertising ecosystem. With this launch, Ventes Avenues plans to bring the branding inventory of its exclusive partners such as Cheetah Mobile, Meitu and other premium publishers to the programmatic channels in India.
Advertisers will now be able to programmatically reach the Ventes Avenues audience sets, including their high-impact ad units across display, video and native ad formats.
Rohit Nair, Principal Product Manager, Ventes Avenues, said, “Programmatic was an obvious transition for us considering the strong technology that powers our product. Our vision has always been to generate the highest yield for our publishers while ensuring the best bang for buck for our advertisers. We genuinely believe programmatic will open up unexplored avenues for us and ensure we stay true to our vision.”
Leveraging an in-house technology stack, Ventes Avenues ensures the best monetisation for its inventory partners via a robust parallel bidding mechanism. It aims to create a transparent marketplace by shifting control of advertising budgets to the buyers.
Ventes Avenues already has a strong presence in the performance and branding verticals via Direct Buys. With the addition of a programmatic arm, Ventes Avenues marks its foray into martech.
Ventes Avenues will make its inventory available to buyers programmatically via Google DBM, The Trade Desk, BidSwitch and other major DSP platforms.


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Ongoing research funded by the Center for Produce Safety aims to evaluate the efficacy of commercially available sanitizers against common foodborne pathogens and biofilms encountered during tree fruit harvesting, and then conduct a validation study of the best-performing treatments at commercial facilities.
Flour mills produce a "ready-to-cook" product. The most severe food safety hazards at flour mills are physical and include metal, wood, pests, and other items. A variety of equipment is used in an enclosed system to prevent physical and other contamination of the product.
The Northeast Center to Advance Food Safety (NECAFS) recently announced its new online Produce Safety Handbook for Buyers. The handbook is formatted as an interactive website that clarifies the complex landscape of food safety regulations and standards across different states in the U.S. Northeast.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) published a report that highlights multi-year trends for antimicrobial resistance among Salmonella from data collected by the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) during 2014–2019.
The Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) recently published a technical report on the prevention and control of microbiological hazards in sprouts.
Edible insects are still considered a "new" food product in the commercial food industry, and it is important to understand the unique food safety challenges they may pose, which could be biological, chemical, or allergenic in nature.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries (NOAA Fisheries) has announced a proposed rule to expand the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP), a risk-based program for targeted species of seafood imported into the U.S.
This article presents the key findings of outbreak investigations from 2014–2021 that have been linked to the consumption of fresh, soft queso fresco-type cheeses in the U.S. The authors outline some of the specific circumstances that small manufacturers of all cheeses may encounter in an effort to provide lessons learned and highlight available resources.
In this article, the authors discuss the mechanisms by which food safety can be improved on the farm, along with some of the treatments that are effective today and likely will be available in the near future.


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Taylor Swift might be Spotify enemy number one, but it seems she’s not against cosying up to its rivals.
The US pop star’s music is now streaming on hi-res streaming platform Tidal, a service recently bought out by fellow star Jay Z.
Swift hit the headlines late last year after the artist pulled all of her audio content from music streaming market leader Spotify.
She claimed that Spotify wasn’t sufficiently compensating artists for their music, and it was wrong that the service gave music away for free.
Spotify does in fact offer a free music tier, although this service creates revenue through advertising and limits users to shuffled audio.
A premium subscription is also available, which removes the advertising, as well as bringing a number of other tempting features like offline audio and non-shuffle playback.
Tidal, meanwhile, has no such free offering, and instead demands users pay for its high quality audio services at a charge of £19.99.
The service is available in dozens of countries – albeit not as many as spotify – and has some 17,000 users.
Related: Why musicians hate Spotify
While it might seem odd that Taylor Swift would be so vehemently opposed to one streaming service yet sign a deal with another, it’s clear that the artist is specifically against free-tier music platforms.
At the time of the original controversy, however, Spotify did fire back at Swift, revealing that it had paid out upwards of $2 billion in royalties to music artists.
“Even though Taylor can pull her music off Spotify (where we license and pay for every song we’ve ever played), her songs are all over services and sites like YouTube and Soundcloud, where people can listen all they want for free.”


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Lidl celebrates 800th UK store opening
Lidl has launched its 800th UK store following the opening of 50 new shops across the country in the past year.
The retailer has launched outlets in Cambridge, London, Boston and Dumbarton today and will open a further six stores next week.
Lidl is expanding at pace after opening 16 new shops across January and February. The retailer is aiming to reach a target of 1,000 stores in the UK by the end of 2023.
Lidl GB chief executive Christian Härtnagel said: “We’re excited to have reached this milestone, which simply means that we’re bringing affordable, high quality food to even more households across Britain. I’m proud of our fantastic teams, from our colleagues working on the shop floor to our colleagues in the warehouse and across our offices, who have driven our expansion efforts around the country. We’re looking forward to opening our doors to even more communities this year and into this new decade where we see so much potential for further growth.”
Lidl has committed to investing £1.3 billion in its store expansion programme throughout 2021 and 2022. The retailer has also been improving its logistics capabilities by opening and expanding six warehouses over the last four years.
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Microsoft gave us a glimpse at the story and scale of the series' "biggest campaign yet."'s campaign Monday, ahead of the highly anticipated game's launch on , Xbox One and PC. The video gave us hints about
It's our first time seeing the Microsoft exclusive first-person shooter's campaign mode since some fans expressed concerns about the game's visuals in a . The game was by more than a year.
The game will launch with its single-player campaign and multiplayer, but campaign co-op and the Forge level editor mode.


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Cymbet Launches EnerChip™ RF Induction Charger EVAL-11 Kit
Near field RF EnerChip charger available at Digi-Key and Mouser
August 4, 2010
Elk River, MN Aug 4, 2010 – Cymbet Corporation today announced that it has released the EnerChip™ RF Induction Charger evaluation kit CBC-EVAL-11 into global distribution. This kit is an easy way for electronics designers to experiment with near field RF (Radio Frequency) charging of EnerChip CC rechargeable solid state energy storage devices. The near field RF Induction method of supplying "wireless power" is an excellent contactless solution for recharging the EnerChip and has many applications. The EVAL-11 kit includes an RF charging transmitter board, a USB cable to power the transmitter board from a PC, and an EnerChip CC CBC3150-based receiver board. The receiver board has a connector for a Texas Instruments eZ430-RF2500T wireless network endpoint device. This combination enables designers to experiment with the concept of RF Induction charging for wireless sensor nodes.
RF Induction Charging Seeing Rapid Market Expansion
Near field RF Induction charging has been used for several years in consumer and medical products to charge internal batteries. With millions of handheld, battery-based devices being shipped every month new types of RF Induction-based charging pads have been introduced to the market. Market research firm iSuppli estimates that 3.6 million units will ship in 2010 and expects the 2011 market to grow to 31 million units. By 2014, iSuppli forecasts nearly 235 million units.
"Customers are asking us to couple RF Induction charging techniques with the EnerChip CC," said Steve Grady, Cymbet's VP of Global Marketing. "They are integrating this EnerChip charging technology into innovative devices such as reusable smart patches, data loggers and wireless sensors. The convenient small form factor enables new compact designs."
A video demonstration of the CBC-EVAL-11 kit can be seen on the Cymbet YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cifxbVwcXQo&feature=channel
CBC-EVAL-11 Available Now at Digi-Key and Mouser
The Cymbet EnerChip CC RF Induction kit is available today from the company's distribution partners. The kit can be found on the:
Mouser EVAL-11 webpage: http://www.mouser.com/cymbetcbceval11/
Cymbet Corporation—a clean technology company—is the leader in solid-state energy storage technology. The company is the first to market eco-friendly rechargeable storage devices that provide embedded systems designers with new embedded power capabilities. The company's EnerChip™ solid state energy devices enable new concepts in energy storage application for ICs and new products for medical, sensor, RFID, industrial control, communications and portable electronic devices. Visit Cymbet online at www.cymbet.com.
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Minneapolis -- Target Corp. confirmed Thursday that it plans to install Apple mini-boutiques in some of its stores this year. The concept will be tested in 25 locations, and feature a wider assortment of Apple products than is currently available at Target, according to Bloomberg.
In addition, the discounter is teaming up with owners of specialty shops to create limited edition merchandise that will be sold online and at its stores. Target will start featuring products from five shops starting May 6. The in-store shops will be open for six weeks and then be replaced with a group of different shops in the fall.
The initial group includes The Candy Store in San Francisco, The Privet House home accessories shop in Connecticut; The Webster House, a clothing store in Miami; Polka Dog Bakery in Boston; and The Cos Bar, a cosmetic shop in Aspen.
Target said it will continue to scout for unique shops that will co-create merchandise to be sold exclusively through Target.
The move “puts Target at the frontier of what's next in retail," said Brian Robinson, director of fashion and design partnership at Target in a presentation in New York.


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It’s a big day for Google and Samsung tomorrow in Hong Kong, the duo have scheduled an event to unleash the latest version of Android Mobile Operating System and latest Android Powered device.
Google has been working intensively to launch the latest edition of the Android called Ice Cream Sandwich which has got the ability to run on both Smartphones and Tablet computers. Not only that Google is also going to display latest Android based handset called Google Nexus Prime, manufactured by Samsung.
This device is the third one manufactured by Samsung directly collaborated with the World’s Largest Search Engine. This is going to be the first device running the latest Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Ideally the launch would have been last week itself, but the Search Engine Giant and Korean Company delayed the launch to pay tribute the death of the Tech legend co-founder of the Cupertino based Apple Inc.
Once the event up and the new line of products are unveiled the first place to hit the stores will be in UK in this month or first week of November. The device is expected to have high definition (720p) display, a dual core 1.5GHz processor and a screen size of 4.65.


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Today I listened to a dairy farmer describe her past year in business. Like all other dairy farmers in the nation, her farm was in crisis. She no longer has TV or trash pick-up. She can’t afford it. She could barely buy food for herself and her husband, which is rather ironic considering that her business is producing food for the nation. She drives a 1989 truck and can’t afford to replace it. She sold off a woodlot at a 50% loss, and that woodlot was intended to pay for her retirement. She’s having a hard time paying for feed and veterinary care for the cows too. This is, of course, cruel to the cows, whose lives are put at risk through no fault of their own. And it’s a problem that is not unique to her farm. Any credit the farmers used to have to buy things they need has now run out. Their suppliers are struggling with a customer base of broke dairy farmers who can’t repay their bills, and now they are asking for cash payments instead of credit. That’s cash the farmers don’t have.
Another farmer said that his 40 cows grossed over $80k in 2008 but under $50k in 2009. His federal assistance for 2009 was $6k, which is pathetic considering his shortfall of tens of thousands of dollars. He works 90-100 hours a week on his farm and his wife works at Wal-Mart. Still, he qualifies for Medicaid and food stamps, which he feels is “humiliating.”
Others spoke about dairy farmers around them going out of business, which in turn put the local businesses that support dairy farms out of business. For the remaining farmers, this is a huge problem as now they don’t have local sources of numerous things they need. One said she felt that the U.S. government obviously does not think that the U.S. needs dairy farmers, based on their policies and statements. She thinks it’s their policy to put U.S. dairy farmers out of business.
These farmers are not unique. Today, they are the norm. In 2009, the average dairy farm lost $270,000. In 2010, they will lose a projected $240,000. To put that in perspective, last year’s lost was about $.90 per gallon. Costs went up by 35% in 2009 while the price of milk received by farmers went down 45%. The farmers say the solution is passing Senate bill 1645 and a companion bill in the House. This bill was sponsored by Arlen Specter. Please, please call or write your Senators and ask them to co-sponsor S. 1645.


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HashedIn, the Bengaluru based IT services and consulting company that builds intelligent SaaS solutions for its global clients hosted the first of its kind XaaS Conference on Feb 1, 2019. The event centered around XaaS and how it can support businesses achieve their objectives. The event was held at Aloft, Cessna Business Park, Bellandur, Bengaluru where over 150+ key decision makers from different business verticals attended.
The goal of the event was to throw light on the specific tenets of XaaS and how it can support in achieving business objectives. XaaS envisions business capabilities, products, and processes not as discreet vertical offerings operating individually in silos but, rather, as a collection of horizontal services that can be accessed and leveraged across organizational boundaries through seamless yet powerful integrations.
XaaS 2019 conference had some eminent personalities from the IT industry as speakers. They shared their views on how companies that use XaaS in their technology roadmap can have an edge over their competitors. Some of the speakers who were part of the event were Phaneesh Murthy, Founder Primentor, Advisor to Fortune 500 Companies; Shamik Sharma, Head – New Product Initiatives, Curefit; Hemant Khandelwal, Ex-CTO Rivigo, Head – Harness India; Anuj Joshi, Co-Founder of OMANVAT Web Services (OWS); Chetan Kulkarni, Founder & CEO, Vizury Interactive; Akilur Rahman, CTO, ABB India and Ananda Ladi, Chief Learning Officer at Edureka.
Mr. Phaneesh Murthy, who was the Keynote speaker of the event said, “50% of the fortune 500 companies, which were relying on legacy software and infrastructure have already embraced SaaS on their product offerings and business models”. He also envisioned the future of XaaS to lead to “Profitability or even smartness as-a-service”.
“We are going to see a huge amount of explosive innovation in XaaS and will also witness B2B and B2C coming together to build products”, said Mr. Hemant Khandelwal, Head – Harness India.
“B2B enterprises have embraced SaaS so much today that it has torn off-the-roof even for Asset heavy industries in the form of utilization, productivity, compliance and health”, said Mr. Akilur Rahman, CTO, ABB India.
Speaking about the event’s success Himanshu Varshney, CEO of HashedIn Technologies said, “I was amazed looking at the turnaround and the way our speakers drove the conference. Our delegates had a great chance to listen to some of the real-life use cases, We plan to host more XaaS based events in the months to come”.
HashedIn plans to have more of such knowledge sharing events and build them as a platform for the industry experts to brainstorm and interact
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USA Cycling announces Volkswagen KOM for Monday’s Pro Road Race
USA Cycling is excited to announce as part of its partnership with Volkswagen, the addition of a Volkswagen King of the Mountain jersey that will be awarded at the upcoming 2012 USA Cycling Professional Road & Time Trial National Championships in Greenville, S.C. The Volkswagen King of the Mountain competition will reward the rider with the most points after four grueling climbs up Paris Mountain during the road race.
The competition within the larger road race is new to the Greenville edition of the USA Cycling Professional Road & Time Trial National Championships. On each of the four trips up Paris Mountain, the top five riders will be scored. The first rider to the top will receive 10 points and the next four successive riders will receive seven, five, three and one point, respectively. The rider who finishes the race with the most Volkswagen King of the Mountain points will receive the jersey at the podium ceremony and a check for $1,000.
“Volkswagen and USA Cycling wanted to add another performance related element that could animate the race even more and provide an incentive to those riders who are at the front of the race each time they crest Paris Mountain,” USA Cycling Chief Operating Officer Sean Petty said.
Indicative of the polka dot jersey awarded for the King of the Mountain winner in the Tour de France, the jersey features blue polka dots and Volkswagen’s “Think Blue” messaging. “Think Blue” embodies Volkswagen’s goal of creating environmentally friendly products and solutions, encouraging more eco-conscious behavior and contributing to a sustainable future. It’s about being more responsible on the road and more environmentally conscious - not just in their cars, but everywhere, every day.
“We are very excited to align with USA Cycling to unveil the new Volkswagen King of the Mountain jersey,” said Tim Mahoney, Chief Marketing Officer, Volkswagen of America. “Through partnerships like this, Volkswagen hopes to further engage Volkswagen fans and cyclists in our ‘Think Blue’ philosophy that encourages eco-friendly behaviors.”
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Earlier this year his 32-year old son Ajay Sawant set up a new business catering to the auto segment providing the same service. "The market is showing positive signs and the conditions are better as compared to last two years. However, smaller companies
have not fully recovered form the slowdown and will take another two years for full recovery," said Sawant.
After witnessing a slowdown in the last few years, there are signs of revival for Indian auto-component industry.
The sector could gain momentum and register growth of 8-10 per cent in the coming financial year, rating agency ICRA said. In FY16, industry
has registered a growth of 7.2 per cent y-o-y vis-a-vis a decline of 3.9 per cent in FY15.
According to ICRA, improved macroeconomic environment (faster GDP growth, easing financing cost, fuel cost) and slew of launches, especially in compact car and utility vehicles (UV) segment supported growth during FY16.
"The past few years have belied the growth projections made by the automotive industry
experts but this year we are seeing some green shoots especially in the commercial vehicle (CV) sector.The sales growth in CV and passenger vehicles is expected to enter the positive trajectory, driven by expected moderation in interest rate, fall in ownership cost and improvement in economic activity and consumer sentiments," said Suresh K V, country head, ZF India.
German auto component major ZF India has a strong presence in commercial vehicles (CV) and off highway segments. It supplies components for all luxury cars along with popular mass segment cars.The company has nine plants spread across Pune, Pantnagar, Gurgaon, Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai, and approximately 3,000 employees.
Suresh said: "Auto component manufacturers are expected to increase their presence by venturing into non-auto sectors as a means to reduce their over-dependence on the vehicle market. Further, with foreign OEMs sourcing vehicles as also auto parts from India, with several of them making India their sourcing hubs, overall growth prospects of the components industry looks better."
According to the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA), the Indian auto-components industry is expected to register a turnover of $100 billion by 2020 backed by strong exports ranging between $80- $100 billion by 2026, from the current $11.2 billion.
The Indian auto-components industry is set to become the third largest in the world by 2025. Indian auto-component makers are well positioned to benefit from the globalisation of the sector as exports potential could be increased by up to four times to $40 billion by 2020.
Satara based engine manufacturer Cooper Corporation, which supplies components to the major Indian OEMs like Bajaj Auto, Ford India, Yamaha, Renault-Nissan, Tata Motors and overseas clients like Jaguar Land Rover, KTM is also seeing good momentum for FY17. The automotive space contributes to nearly 40 per cent of Cooper Engineering's business while generator sets form another critical user base.
Farrokh Cooper, chairman & managing director, Cooper Corporation said: "We have diversified our business into various sectors like automobile, oil and gas, power and power gensets.The right balance of import and export has helped us to survive in slowdown. However, there are signs of revival from auto industry and it is helping our sales. We have witnessed significant growth of around 40 per cent in diesel engines sales in the last one year."
Forging industry which is largely (around 60 per cent) dependent on automobile sector has gone through a rough time. According to Asheet Pasricha, former president, Association of Indian Forging Industry (AIFI), many survuved the slowdown because they diversified into non-auto segments, but a revival in sales will only be good for the industry.
"Depending upon the distribution of order book within the auto component manufacturers, passenger car and two wheeler segment is doing good from the last two quarters.The commercial vehicle segment has shown a sign of recovery and forging industry has observed demand across all spectrum," said Pasricha.
DSM Engineering Plastics, which supplies plastic parts to automobile manufacturers is also riding high on the growing demand from the sector.The company is expecting a double digit growth for the next two years.
"We are very much optimistic about the growth in automobile sector. DSM being a tier-III supplier for automobile sector, we are hoping to achieve a double digit growth in the next financial year as demand is growing form the sector. I am sure this trend will continue for the next few years because of favourable economic conditions, said Sanjay Jain, business director, DSM India.
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The tension is getting thicker between Qualcomm and Nokia over negotiations to renew a mutual licensing agreement that is due to expire in a year. Qualcomm has brought a patent-infringement lawsuit against Nokia in the U.K., alleging that Nokia infringes on two patents there related to GPRS/EDGE devices that don't have any W-CDMA capabilities. Qualcomm is looking for an injunction and damages for phones already sold. A similar suit was filed in the U.S. against Nokia last November. UBS believes the suit is part of a negotiation ploy with Nokia over a licensing agreement set to expire next year that allows Nokia to sell CDMA and W-CDMA handsets and Qualcomm to sell GSM chips that rely on Nokia patents. The two are at a standoff over renewed terms. The lawsuits are similar to a move Ericsson and Motorola made when they were trying to negotiate terms with Qualcomm in the late 1990s, UBS notes. Watch the lawsuits and counter suits fly in the next couple of months.
To read more about Qualcomm's lawsuit against Nokia in the U.K.:
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The stratospheric rise of the avocado category is probably the greatest fresh produce success story in recent memory, but with such rapid growth can come compromise, and the green goldrush has not been without its pitfalls. Two major challenges stand out in this regard, namely internal quality and the tendency for avocado trees to adopt an alternate bearing cycle.
The rampant increase in demand for avocados means some fruit with questionable internal quality can make it through the system, prompting “fewer complaints than there sometimes should have been”, according to Rob Cullum of Pacific Produce. The newer production regions of Kenya and Colombia have a less consistent reputation for internal quality, he claims, with both countries ramping up production in recent years to fill certain gaps in global supply.
“There used to be defined periods of real shortage, but growers around the world have reacted and they’re filling those gaps,” Cullum explains. “Some places have won market share by hitting windows, but the quality isn’t always there. Can they improve? Yes. Are they up against big challenges? Yes.”
In Colombia the main challenge is the weather, with growers in the country’s jungle-covered highlands contending with a wide range of weather patterns. “It’s not that they’re bad growers, it’s just that they’ve got particularly challenging conditions to grow in,” says Cullum. “Their advantage is that they can grow pretty much year-round, and hitting the windows is great, but if you’re selling a ripened product, other sources offer greater stability.” The most renowned countries for consistent quality, according to the importer, are Peru, South Africa, Israel, Spain, Chile and Mexico.
As one of the UK’s biggest importers of Peruvian produce, it is perhaps unsurprising that Cullum includes the South American nation in his list, but he also doesn’t refrain from criticising the Peruvian avocado sector, which he says flooded the European market last year. “Last year, Peru shipped too much fruit to Europe in the main part of its season, and for the first time in ages avocado was being pushed around at very low prices – lower than the cost of production.”
Part of the problem was that avocado trees tend to be alternate bearing, as mentioned earlier, and if several major sources produce large volumes in the same season, markets can become flooded, and prices can collapse. Last year, crucially, Mexico and California also had heavy seasons, and since the US accounts for a large percentage of Peru’s exports, “Peru got scared and sent too much to Europe,” Cullum says. “In hindsight, that was a mistake – the US market actually held up – but you can see that even in a product that people call green gold, it doesn’t take much for a market to go from famine to feast.”
Fortunately, Cullum doesn’t see the same happening this season for two reasons: firstly, Peru’s avocado volumes are predicted to be slightly down on last year, and secondly, the US market is expected to return to its normal supply balance, with California set for a short season.
As for Pacific Produce, Cullum says the company is increasing its production every year, “but not like lunatics”. Although international demand for avocados continues to grow, this growth has now started to slow, and Cullum is cautious not to overproduce. “Some people are going big guns,” he says. “Peru, South Africa, Colombia, all of the growing regions are growing like crazy – but individually within them you’ve got people planting huge plantations in one go, and others who are growing incrementally. There are new players in the market – let’s call them finance companies – that want to get into agriculture and are planting several hundred hectares of avocado in one go, but they don’t have any tradition.”
Going forward, it seems it will be key for producers not to get too carried away and to increase production at a sensible rate. Suppliers around the world all continue to get the message: “we want more avocados”, but Cullum suggests the balance is finer than some people might think. As the saying goes, sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.
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Macy’s (US Department store) are always looking for ways to keep their customer experience fresh and engaging and through digital transformation have found a new tool to help increase sales. Macy’s has announced a partnership with Marxent to deploy roughly 70 VR installations to its stores across the US.
During the pilot program held at 3 stores, Macy’s saw an increase in furniture sales that involved VR increase by 60% and returns drop to less than 2%.
“Through the Macy’s VR furniture experience, we are giving our customers a new way to visualize a large selection of furniture products. Customers design their living space and, using a VR headset, immerse themselves in the virtual rooms they create.
VR is a practical application proven to drive sales and a terrific example of combining technology and the human touch,” Hal Lawton, president of Macy’s.


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The Coca-Cola Co.’s polar bears have joined Santa in on-air and online promotional spots as part of ABC Family’s “25 Days of Christmas” programming and ad-sales event.
The soft-drink giant’s Christmas polar bears began popping up in co-branded promotional spots on ABC Family’s air and Web site (abcfamily.go.com/home.html) Dec. 1 via a sponsorship package it bought for the network’s eighth-annual holiday stunt, which once again includes an extensive local-ad-sales component that this season will reach some 60 million homes, driven by national and area sweepstakes.
ABC Family senior vice president of national ad sales Mark Rejtig began working with Coke earlier this fall on the co-branding effort.
“It’s not every year that Coke decides to use the polar bears at holiday. About two months ago, we began talking about ways to tie them in,” he said. “We decided that the best way was to have the bears interact with our Santa in several different executions.”
In addition to the co-branded on-air spots -- which are buttressed by “a sizable” schedule within the stunt that will encompass some 150 hours of holiday fare from Dec. 1-25 -- the network has established the “25 Days Download Den,” an area accessible from its home page.
There, users can download an array of co-branded holiday items, including Christmas cards, screen-savers, wallpapers and programming calendar, featuring the bears and ABC Family 25 Days characters.
ABC Family’s largest ad-sales and programming event -- the network had its best-ever month last December, when it attracted 812,000 adult 18-49 viewers on average to rank fifth overall in basic cable against that demo -- has also drawn a number of other national advertisers.
With it being shopping season, Rejtig said, ABC Family has many major retailers on board.
RadioShack Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Kmart Holding Corp., Target Brands Inc., T.J. Maxx and Sears, Roebuck & Co. are among the chains that have secured time within the stunt, which this year not only includes Rankin/Bass perennials like Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town and Rudolph’s Shiny New Year, but a pair of original films -- Chasing Christmas and Christmas in Boston -- plus How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the Jim Carrey vehicle) and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
He noted that 15 clients will “own a day” within the stunt period through spots, as well as on-air billboards and associations with bumpers, intros and tune-in spots.
“We could have easily sold all 25 days, but we wanted to make it more special for our client partners,” Rejtig said.
Moreover, Nikon Corp. and Circuit City Stores Inc. are sponsoring the “ABC Family Essentials section” on the network’s Web site, which showcased wish lists to help viewers complete their holiday shopping.
Elsewhere, America Online Inc. bought a package making it the presenting sponsor and the beneficiary of product integration within Christmas in Boston (premiering Dec. 14 at 8 p.m.).


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: INFI) today announced that it hasmoved the date of its third quarter 2016 financial results conference call and webcast from Monday, November 7, 2016, at 4:30 p.m. ET to Wednesday, November 9, 2016,
A live webcast of the conference call can be accessed in the Investors/Media section of Infinity's website at www.infi.com. To participate in the conference call, please dial 1-877-316-5293 (domestic) and 1-631-291-4526 (international) five minutes prior to start time. The conference ID number is 1138542. An archived version of the webcast will be available on Infinity's website for 30 days.
Contact:Jaren MaddenSenior Director, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications617-453-1336 or Jaren.Madden@infi.com
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(Reuters) — Facebook’s acquisition of customer service startup Kustomer may be subjected to European Union antitrust scrutiny after Austria asked EU enforcers to take over the task, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
The move comes as the EU competition regulator girds up to vet more tech, pharma, and biotech startup deals, sending a warning to tech giants criticized by some for so-called killer acquisitions, where startups buy nascent rivals with the goal of shutting them down.
The world’s largest social network announced the deal in November. It could help the company scale up its instant messaging app WhatsApp, which has seen usage jump during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Facebook sought approval for the deal from the Austrian competition agency on March 31.
“We can confirm that we have received a request for referral from Austria,” a Commission spokesperson said.
Other national watchdogs have 15 working days to inform the EU competition enforcer whether they too want it to review the deal.
“Following the expiry of the deadline for other Member States to join the referral, the Commission will have 10 working days to decide whether to accept or reject the referral,” the spokesperson said.
Facebook said the deal would bring more innovation to businesses and consumers in a dynamic and competitive space.
“We look forward to demonstrating to regulators that Facebook and Kustomer would offer more choices and better services through this pro-competitive deal,” a Facebook spokesperson said.
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Net Heavy Weights Join Forces
America's top "dot com" companies, including Inktomi, Lycos, AOL, Yahoo and eBay, announced today that they have formed a coalition to further promote their interests to the US governement.
"In founding NetCoalition.com
these leading entrepreneurs are responding to members of Congress who tell us they need innovative online approaches to the unique challenges facing the Internet," said Daniel Ebert who will be coordinating the coalition's Washington operations.
It's estimated that 90% of web users visit a site owned by one of the nine companies every month, so the new coalition looks set to be able to swing a lot of weight.
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Etsy, the peer-to-peer creative site that’s home to more than 1.8 million crafty sellers, typically has a pulse on what’s happening in the “unique finds” marketplace. The next trend they see hitting your digital shopping carts? Mismatched earrings.
Etsy’s resident trend expert Dayna Isom Johnson keeps a finger on the pulse of popular searches and rising interests. Most recently, she’s noticed a correlation between the asymmetrical earring look that’s been hitting high-fashion runways and thousands of Etsy search results for ‘mismatched earrings.’ And they show no signs of slowing down.
Whatever the trend’s exact roots (though we wouldn’t doubt if it’s partially due to the dozens of once-coupled solo earrings we all inevitably have scattered around) there are endless ways to pull off this seemingly intimidating trend.
Whether it’s color-coordinated pairs, different sizes, or different shapes, “you can make as big (or as small) of a statement as you’d like” with this trend, Johnson writes on Etsy’s trend blog. We knew those sad, single earrings would one day be useful.
Whether you want an unconventional mismatched look or a cleaner, asymmetrical pairing, we’ve rounded up some incredibly cute mismatched earring pairs that’ll help you dip your toes into a trend that’s likely to become a go-to look in the year ahead. Check out the slideshow below, and sign up for our Full Carts, Can’t Lose email to stay on top of the best sales each week.
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|Vietnam’s former imperial capital of Hue plans to pilot a public bicycle service that will provide hundreds of tourists with an option to view its downtown streets.|
Some 400 bikes will be provided in inner-city areas and about 2,000 bikes in suburban areas. The project is expected to be completed before the Hue Festival 2020 in April, which is one of the biggest tourism events in the country.
Visitors can use an app on their smartphone to access the service. The QR codes on the app can unlock the bikes and a GPS can locate them.
The service will provide visitors an alternative way to travel along the Huong (Perfume) River in the town’s centre and at other tourist spots.
Hue also plans to open more pedestrian malls to the north and south of the Huong River, develop means of public transport and launch environmentally friendly toilets and bins.


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Promotion for Lou Delfino & key role at leading apparel brand for Shannon Holden
Galvin Green, the leading high-performance golf apparel brand that has seen an impressive 54% growth in sales of its long-lasting garments in the North American market over the past year, has appointed Lou Delfino as its new General Manager in the region.
Lou, who joined the apparel brand with the largest depth of sustainable clothing for men and women golfers almost two years ago, has been promoted to the role from Sales Director and will manage the Galvin Green operation in the world’s largest golf market from his current base in Milton, GA.
“Lou has almost 25 years of golf industry experience and several awards to his name and so we’re thrilled that he’s agreed to step up into the GM role as we continue to maintain our ambitious growth plans across North America,” said Galvin Green CEO Nicholai Stein. “He will be well supported by Shannon Holden, who has gained a great reputation for her handling of customer service operations and working closely with our retail partners,” he added.
Before joining Galvin Green in March 2021, Lou worked for NIKE as a National Account
Manager; Chase 54 Golf Apparel as Vice President of Sales; and athleisure golf apparel
brand Devereux as Director of Sales. During his time with NIKE, he was recognized by Golf Digest as a Top 25 Salesperson after increasing sales in the South-eastern States more than fourfold.
“I’m very excited to become General Manager of Galvin Green in North American as I believe there’s so much great potential for the brand in this market,” said Lou. “While continuing to build a stellar reputation for its incomparable waterproof and windproof garments, we’ve also been able to drive sales of the versatile INTERFACE-1™, lightweight INSULA™ and super cool VENTIL8™ lines that deliver the perfect balance of comfort and performance whatever the weather dictates,” he added.
Galvin Green has pioneered fabric innovation and sustainability in the apparel sector over the last three decades and a large proportion of garments in the latest Part Two range are produced using environmental Bluesign® approved fabric or certified OEKO-TEX Standard 100 to cover thread and buttons as well as fabric. Using more recycled and sustainable materials designed to last longer takes the established ‘Green in Galvin Green’ theme to another level.
Since introducing its eco-generation INSULA™ sweaters in 2020, almost 3 million recycled plastic bottles have been processed to deliver the required fabric.
For details on the latest range, please visit www.galvingreen.com or contact your local Sales Representative.
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In sweeping new rules announced on Thursday November 7, the LME also said it will take action to prevent queue incentivisation and introduce a number of other recommendations put forward by stakeholders during a three-month consultation on its proposals.
"[The] LME will investigate and act to prevent warehouse companies unreasonably incentivising the formation of queues," the LME said.
Its other recommendations include the publication of new delayed warehouse stock reports and commitment of traders data, the creation of a new physical market committee and an “ongoing commitment to best-practice information barriers”, the LME said on Thursday November 7.
It will also investigate the possibility of introducing products linked to physical premiums, the LME said.
The LME proposals respond to unprecedented scrutiny and criticism of its warehouse network, particularly in the USA, where Senate investigations and lawsuits have been launched to examine claims made by physical consumers and other stakeholders that the LME, warehouses and their parent companies have inflated physical prices by withholding metal from the market in long warehouse queues that have developed in locations such as Detroit.
“As the world’s leading base metals exchange, the LME has a duty to the entire metals community to run a fair and orderly market,” LME chief executive Garry Jones said in the statement on Thursday.
“We had a responsibility to examine concerns raised about lengthy warehousing queues, as these pose a range of issues in terms of price discovery and price convergence as well as the use of the market for effective hedging,” he added.
“Having carried out a rigorous and in-depth market engagement programme involving over 70 meetings and more than 30 written responses we now call on all market participants to move forward under these new rules, which we believe best balance the needs of all LME stakeholders,” he said.
To strengthen its existing physical delivery mechanisms, the LME will also commission a full external logistical review of its warehouse system to assess “reasonable” operational expectations and requirements, as well as reviewing the warehousing agreement.
Despite the additional measures announced on Thursday, the LME still expects the proposals to be implemented as planned on April 1 2014.
Under the proposals, warehouse companies with an outbound delivery backlog of more than 50 days in an individual location will have to deliver out more than they load in, according to a scaled formula.
For example, a warehouse currently required to deliver out a daily tonnage of 3,000 tonnes would, under the proposal, need to load out at least 1,500 tonnes per day more than it loads in, the LME said.


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This recall affects 2013-2015 Jayco Fifth Wheel Seismic and 2015 Pinnacle trailers, according to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The recalled travel trailers were incorrectly assembled with 6,000 lb capacity axles instead of the 7,000 lb axles the trailers were designed to be equipped with, NHTSA said. The underrated axles may result in the trailer being overloaded, potentially causing drivers to lose control of the tow vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
Jayco is notifying owners and dealers will replace the axles and leaf springs, free of charge. This recall began on March 11, 2020.
Jay Flight SLX Recall
Jayco is recalling 2020 Jay Flight SLX Travel Trailers over concerns that the propane supply hose connection to the refrigerator may be improperly tightened, possibly resulting in a
propane leak, according to the NHTSA. A propane leak can increase the risk of an explosion or fire. This recall began on May 29, 2020.
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As we head into winter our bag game becomes a whole lot more important. Work, gym, school, whatever – A Bathing Ape’s iconic shark motif has made its way on to a new set of bags for the Fall/Winter 2016 season. Featuring the iconic shark motif, this BAPE bag collection will include a Day Pack, Sports Bag and all-in signature 1st Camo.
BAPE recently teased the BAPE x Adidas NMD, available in a Green and Black camo. With that, the brand collab has also introduced apparel into the collection – featuring a down jacket, tees and socks. Equipped with the famous Three Stripes branding and/or shark/BAPE branding. The BAPE bag collection will be dropping this weekend (Saturday, November 26), available at all BAPE locations as well as online.


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House of Travel (Orewa and Whangaparaoa) cruise marketing manager Annie Mellor says the idea of retirement on a cruise ship has been slow to take off in NZ, but as an international trend and with the huge growth in the cruise industry, she expects to see a change for NZ retirees.
“Certainly our baby boomers are looking for alternatives to the traditional retirement village option,” Annie says. “There has been a trend over the past five years for retiree clients to do longer cruises.
They are spending their time catching up on their OE with a round the world cruise for three to four months, spending around $50,000 per person with Princess cruises, for example.
“Our senior clients have a thirst for adventure and educational insights with a growth seen in small ship cruising where unique destinations can be reached in comfort such as Antarctica, the Amazon and the Galapagos Islands. Voyage of Antiquity is catering for this older market with an academic twist, offering specialist speakers and professors on board to enhance their experience, mainly around Europe.
“Our clients will have friends and relatives house-sit and pet-mind in their absence so that cruising is an easy option and some will spend between one week and six months on Australia’s Sunshine Coast, escaping the NZ winter, and combining this with cruising. Others will spend time after a cruise to live locally for a month or so in places such as Tuscany or researching their heritage. Some retiree clients are simply spending their years ticking off their bucket list with cruises taking them to places such as the Arctic, South America, Alaska, Cuba and Vietnam.”
The US market leader in luxury live-aboard residences is The World cruise ship where clients buy an apartment for year-round cruising.
Built in 2002, The World continuously sails the world and has been purpose built with luxury residences including kitchenette apartments and a grocery store on board, along with the usual cruise ship facilities. It is the largest privately owned residential yacht in the world and is home to 142 families, from 19 different countries, of varied ages.
“As such, we don’t regard ourselves specifically as a retirement option, but the average age is 62 years, with many residents still active in their day-to-day businesses,” spokesperson Lara Ballard says.
The average length of time spent on board is three to six months of the year.
Annie says that if The World-style cruising did take off in NZ, it would mean that clients would still require a base of some sort, so that family connections could be maintained.
“An alternative to The World could be for retirees to choose one cruise line with a range of cruise options through the year as their preferred retirement mode, which is close to living on board year round.
“There is a huge selection of cruise ships and destinations to choose from worldwide to keep them busy for years, but they would still need a base in NZ as cruise itineraries can change and ships can be taken off routes for refurbishment.
“The most popular cruising choice for retirees is any cruise that departs from or arrives in Auckland. Some will take their extended family for significant family events such as 50th wedding anniversaries.”
Onboard life offers alternative
Living on a cruise ship provides a better quality of life and is cost-effective for elderly people who need help to live independently, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Lee Lindquist, instructor of medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, compared the amenities and costs in assisted living facilities with accommodation on cruise ships. Both offer single room apartments with a private bathroom, a shower with easy access, some help, cable television, security services, and entertainment. Cruise ships, however, have superior health facilities – one or more doctors, nurses available 24 hours a day, defibrillators, equipment for dealing with medical emergencies, and the ability to give intravenous fluids and antibiotics. Assisted living facilities in the US almost never have doctors on site and seldom have nurses available 24 hours, Dr Lindquist said. Cruise ships also have a higher ratio of employees to passengers than assisted living facilities.
The authors calculated that the long-term cost for a person to live on a cruise ship from the age of 80 until his or her death would be US$230,497 compared with US$228,075 for an assisted living facility.


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Compared to the previous month, retail sales rose a seasonal and working day adjusted 0.5%, following a 0.4% decline in May.
In the first half of the year, retail sales slipped 3.2% compared to the same period the previous year.
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Chemtura Corporation (Euronext Paris: CHMT) (“Chemtura”) recently announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which LANXESS AG (“LANXESS”), a global specialty chemicals company, will acquire Chemtura in a transaction valued at approximately $2.5 billion
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In the recently concluded budget fight over wine in grocery stores, the successful opposition portrayed their fight as a defense of Mom and Pop stores on Main Street. Whatever the merits of this argument might be for the box store world of upstate New York-and, quite frankly, we don't see any-it really falls flat in the city of New York; as more and more small stores on the city's main streets succumb to economic hard times: "Bye-bye, mom and pop. Small businesses in the Bronx are disappearing, according to a report released by Rep. Anthony Weiner. It shows that 9.1%, or 105, of the 1,156 stores along seven main shopping strips in the borough have closed or are in the process of closing."
And it ain't the big boxes that are at fault in the city's small store plight: "Michael Palomba, 51, owner of Palomba Academy of Music & Dance, said he has watched his area of E. Gun Hill Road deteriorate as the Internet and chain stores grow, the economy plummets and the city makes the environment less welcoming to businesses...Palomba said the city “chokes” local businesses with regular sanitation citations, tax rate increases and fines from the Fire and Health departments."
This dire situation has led to the introduction of the Small Business Protection bill at the city council. But does anyone think that the Quinnberg administration will let this bill sail through so that the city's bodegas can get some relief? Bloomberg is no fan of the little guy; and as for Chris Quinn, how does Invasion of the Body Snatchers sound as a description of her new political persona as the mayor's handmaiden?
Will leave the last word to a Bronx bodeguero: "Waley Alzubide, 23, who owns a bodega at 900 E. Gun Hill Road, is weathering a time when goods are more expensive, people have less money to spend and stores are closing around him. He said much more will be needed to rebuild his belief in the American dream. “It doesn’t look like the America that people who come from different countries come here for,” he said. “If you have a family and you are making $600 a week, you can’t make it.”


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The number of active bitcoin addresses rebounded to near-record highs, driven partially by El Salvador's passage of a law that makes it the first country to accept the digital currency as legal tender.

According to Glassnode data, on May 8 there were roughly 1.229 million active bitcoin addresses. That's just under 15,000 addresses away from the January 8 all-time record of 1.243 million.

During the recent bitcoin sell-off, active bitcoin addresses fell dramatically, but now, as bitcoin's price has stabilized, there's been a resurgence in the number of active addresses on the network.

According to Glassnode, the rise in bitcoin addresses is a common "characteristic of bull markets" as the number of addresses rises when there is "strengthening demand for on-chain transactions, value settlement, and urgency for inclusion in an upcoming block."

Bitcoin has been on a wild ride of late. The price of the digital asset reached an all-time high on April 15 of over $63,500 per coin before bearish news pulled the price down.

From Tesla's u-turn on accepting bitcoin as a payment to concerns about the digital currency's environmental impact, there was a flurry of bearish signals that hurt bitcoin.

Now though, the digital currency seems to have regained some of its previous luster after landing support at the soldout Bitcoin 2021 Miami conference and from El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele.

Bukele sent a bill to El Salvador's congress asking to make bitcoin legal tender in the country this week, and the bill was passed with a supermajority (62 out of 84 votes).

Nicholas Cawley from DailyFX told Insider that making Bitcoin legal tender "will help the remittances trade in El Salvador, for people sending money back to the country."

The strategist said that "if this proves successful then the other big remittance markets including Mexico will be very interested onlookers."

Read more: Forget bitcoin and other hypervolatile cryptocurrencies. For everyday transactions, the future of money is stablecoins.

Inflation concerns could also be helping bitcoin regain its prominence as digital assets are often viewed as a way to protect capital from inflationary pressures.

Google Trends data shows terms relating to inflation have seen skyrocketing search volume over the past month as market commentators continue to question whether current inflationary forces are truly "transitory" as the Fed describes.

Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel even said inflation could spike to 20% in the next few years in a recent interview with CNBC.

If inflation does spike and investors seek uncorrelated stores of value, bitcoin could end up gaining even more traction.

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Bark No.1 large company, according to employees
The COVID-19 that has sent Americans home to work for the past two years has been a boom for pet adoption. More than 23 million households nationwide have welcomed a new pet during the pandemic to help family members cope with feelings of isolation. Now that people are heading back to the office, some of these new pet owners are wondering how to take care of their canine companions. Unfortunately, many send them back to shelters.
If you work at Bark, you don’t have this dilemma. Long before the pandemic, the pet retailer had developed a culture that encouraged employees in its New York and Columbus offices to bring their dogs to work. In fact, on his careers page, he even tells potential employees that “it would be a little weird if you didn’t bring your dog to work. To be in Bark is to have human and dog colleagues.
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Bark was named the #1 large company to work for, according to employees, as part of Columbus CEO Top Workplaces 2022 program.
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The power of employees to be able to work alongside their canine companions was reinforced by a recent survey conducted by the company to explore the challenges dog parents face when they return to the office. One in three dog parents think they will be happier and less stressed at work if they have their dog around, and 28% think their life would be more comfortable if they had that option. And 72% of dog parents who have already returned to work miss their dog while they are back in the office. The survey also revealed that pet owners will miss their dogs far more than their children or spouses.
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“Employers we talk to, including our peers or large corporations, are always interested in how to create that environment where [you] can bring dogs into the workplace in a way that both employees and dogs are comfortable with,” says Rustin Richburg, Bark’s human resources manager. “We’ve always done that. It has always been part of our DNA. Our culture is built around our mission as a company. It’s simple and straightforward. Make the dogs happy. Everything we do stems from this mission.
Bark was founded in New York as BarkBox by Carly Strife, Matt Meeker and Henrik Werdelin. The company, launched in 2012, opened an office in Columbus in 2015 where it currently has 333 employees. In addition to the original BarkBox – a monthly box of themed toys and treats – the company also sells a themed collection of super tough toys, treats and chews as part of its Super Chewer line; a chewy duo plus toothpaste under its Bright line; and healthy, personalized meals under its Eats range. Partnerships with major retailers like Amazon and Target have helped fuel growth.
The company, which went public in 2021, has around 2.3 million active subscriptions.
Shelby Mason, senior community and engagement coordinator at Columbus, says the company believes people are its strongest asset. Even though the company is now publicly traded, “the people-centric approach keeps Bark down-to-earth and somewhere you want to be every day,” she says.
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Mason’s work has a direct impact on corporate culture. Her team plans what she describes as “interesting and engaging events to create meaningful experiences, community building, and brand integrity here at Bark.” Dinners with your dog, weekly wellness classes, taking your (human) child to work, drag queen bingo, and family nights are some of the events employees can attend.
“When you bring together a bunch of dog-loving weirdos with one goal, ‘to make the dogs happy’…you’ve already created a sacred space,” Mason says. “The next part is maintaining that. Bark supports employees holistically – unlimited time off, comprehensive benefits, an employee assistance program focused on mental health, employee resource groups, meaningful outings with co-workers, and happy hour every day. days past 5 p.m. – Well, it’s gotten a little earlier lately – Bark has a space for everyone to meet up. We know our employees make us great, so the answer is always “Yes, and your dog is invited too.”
Bark’s Benefit Package includes comprehensive pet insurance. The company is also a strong advocate for promoting dog-friendly spaces, community-based abandonment prevention services, and responsible sourcing and repatriation.
Dogs have also been an integral part of Bark’s return-to-office strategy. Last year, the company introduced COVID-sniffing beagles as part of a pilot program. The dogs were trained by BioScent, which trains medical scent detection beagles in partnership with the Florida International University Detection Dog Program. Dogs are able to detect a positive case with 98% accuracy. If a dog approaches an employee and sniffs that they are positive, the beagle will sit down. If negative, the dog will just keep walking.
“We wanted to show the ability of these puppies and what they are capable of and educate others around different alternatives around dog power that we really haven’t embraced as a society,” Richburg said.
Bark has a hybrid work environment structured around what makes sense per team. Some teams come some days for… face-to-face meetings and other times they work remotely. “The approach,” says Richburg, “is where can we be most productive, most effective while maintaining a level of culture and community within our teams as well.”
Laura Newpoff is a freelance writer.
500 W. Broad St. Columbus 43215
Business: Bark makes products, content and experiences for dogs and their people. It launched in 2012 with its first subscription product, BarkBox, and has since expanded with multiple subscription offerings.
CEO: Matt Sweet
2021 turnover: $378 million